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title: "4 versions of companies thinking green"
description: "Over the past few days I’ve come across the following thematic convergence of companies thinking about their impact on the environment. Over at the FreshBooks blog Mike McDerment has announced..."
url: https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/4-versions-of-companies-thinking-green/
date: 2006-07-28
modified: 2025-10-10
author: "James Sherrett"
categories: ["Events & Other News"]
type: post
lang: en
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# 4 versions of companies thinking green

Over the past few days I’ve come across the following thematic convergence of companies thinking about their impact on the environment.

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Over at the FreshBooks blog Mike McDerment has announced their (http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2006/07/26/green-office-initiative/): “ways that small professional services companies (i.e. web designers and consultants, many of which are home-based) can operate their offices in environmentally friendly ways.”

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Fortune Magazine reports that (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/07/8382593/index.htm)(!)

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From the (http://www.patagonia.com) website I learned about the (http://www.onepercentfortheplanet.org/) campaign, which sounds very cool.

Here at Work Industries I’m looking to get involved in a similar effort to that proposed by Freshbooks. As a start over the next few months, I’ll be contributing to a new project launched by (http://www.vancity.com) called (http://www.changeeverything.ca).

Check it out to see what folks are doing to make the world a better place, and, if you’re interested, join in and contribute to the effort.